Wall Street Journal reports Kristi Noem arranged purchase to expand deportation flights and for personal travel
The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines.
The bizarre anecdote was contained in a Wall Street Journal report released on Friday, which recounted how Noem and Corey Lewandowski – who managed Donald Trump’s first winning presidential campaign – had recently arranged to buy 10 Boeing 737 aircraft from Spirit Airlines. People familiar with the situation told the paper that the two intended to use the jets to expand deportation flights – and for personal travel.
Those sources also claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had cautioned them that buying planes would be far more expensive than simply expanding existing flight contracts.
It’s pretty fucked up that wasting our tax money on incompetence and corruption is now objectively preferable to using it to effectively pursue their agenda.
On the other hand, Corey and Kristi doing a lot of personal travel in 737MAXes might not be so bad…
Our government has been like THAT for a looooong time:
It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) He said a bunch of other things about politicians too.
If I made a list of the members in this administration that I’d like to watch defend themselves in a trial, obviously Trump would be at the top of the list but Kristi is a solid, though somewhat distant, second. I just want to see those vapid tapped out bimbo lips flapping around “but I was just doing my job flappity flap flap”.
It overlaps heavily with my list of members in this administration I’d like to watch defend themselves in Colosseum-style mortal combat.
Krusty Gnome versus hungry lions. Steven Miller trying to escape a maze filled with alligators. Donald Trump versus lifting a glass of water without stroking out
I was just writing about Billionaire Brawl elsewhere. Glad to see more people thinking about this sort of concept.
I feel you but… it’s too quick. Maybe we could do a trial where they just get drilled by smart people for several weeks about every single shitty thing they did, then the sentence could be death by mortal combat.
It’s too bad that we don’t have real displacer beasts.
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Good! I’m MUCH Happier with my Tax Dollars going to
Feed Starving American ChildrenSending Random Kids to War Torn Countries!Why does this sound more like someone got caught trying to launder tax dollars? How does one source planes no one owns that are also mostly useless?
Absolute withing the range of a government where “competence” in any way is considered an absolute downside.
It’s cool. We’ll just use those gifted engines from the UAE.
So that’s where the snap emergency funds went.
